A fabulous early work by Wada Morihiro enclosed in the original signed wooden box titled Saido Sugimon Utsuwa. This was originally sold at the preeminent Takashimaya Nihonbashi Art Gallery in 1984. It is 23.5 cm (11-1/4 inches) tall, 18 cm (7-1/2 inches) diameter and in excellent condition, retaining the original wrapping cloth, and Takashimaya exhibition papers.
Wada Morihiro (1944-2008) is one of the most important artists to come from the Kasama tradition. He was born in Hyogo prefecture and apprenticed under Kyoto’s Tomimoto Kenkichi before moving to Ibaraki in 1976. He displayed at the Nihon Togei Ten (National Ceramics Exhibition), Nihon Dento Kogei Ten (National Traditional Crafts Exhibition) Gold medal at the Florence International Ceramics Exhibition in 1980 as well as being displayed at the Victoria Albert and Smithsonian as one representative of modern Japanese ceramics in 1983. He subsequently received the Japanese Ceramic Society Award in 1985, a very rare honor. In recent years he has received a great deal of attention both domestic and abroad.
